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The Whitney Foundation
Its FY2019 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $121k
- $250k+2 grants · $626k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Central Valley Community Foundation | $326,363 |
| California State University Fresno Foundation | $300,000 |
| LEAP Charities | $71,000 |
| Boise State University Foundation | $50,000 |
| United Way of Treasure Valley | $25,000 |
| Arte Americas | $25,000 |
| Madera County Arts Council | $25,000 |
| American Red Cross | $7,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $483k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 27% of The Whitney Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 72% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 61% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2019, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2019, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $496k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH2× · 2017–2018 · $200k · revenue +199%
- EPEXCEPTIONAL PARENTS UNLIMITED INC2× · 2017–2018 · $125k · revenue +70%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches2× · 2017–2019 · $83k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- FMFresno Metropolitan Ministrygraduatedone grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +422%
- SJSAN JOAQUIN RIVER PARKWAY & CONSERVATION TRUSTone grant, 2018 · $125k · revenue +15%
- HCHoly Cross Ministries of Utahgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $119k · revenue +137%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
United Way Fresno and Madera Counties creates paths to prosperity. We achieve this through resident-led and partner-supported work that acknowledges individual circumstance and prioritizes access, opportunity, and equity for all.
Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…
Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.
To empower Latino and Utah families by providing equitable access to information, resources, and educational programs to advance and strengthen the community.
Making lives better in southwest utah by providing accessible, quality health care, regardless of financial, language, or cultural barriers.
Our mission is to improve the lives of children in our community.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
The mission of the UpValley Family Centers is to provide guidance, support and resources in the community, in the home and for the individual so that everyone can achieve a better life. We serve youth, adults and families in the…
To deliver comprehensive health and human service programs that improve the health and well-being of under-served california residents.
To foster and encourage thriving communities where all children and families can live healthy, safe, and productive lives
California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Treasure Valley Inc and the most unlike its peers is Arte Americas the Mexican Arts Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Central Valley Community Foundation A Corporation ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Fresno Metropolitan Ministry ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH ↗
- Who funds SAN JOAQUIN RIVER PARKWAY & CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds EXCEPTIONAL PARENTS UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds Holy Cross Ministries of Utah ↗
- Who funds Community Water Center ↗
- Who funds Self-Help Enterprises ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CATCH INC ↗
- Who funds LEAP CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Boise State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ADVOCATE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO WOMENS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ADA CO ID ↗
- Who funds Arte Americas The Mexican Arts Center ↗
- Who funds Focus Forward ↗
- Who funds MADERA COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds WASSMUTH CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS HOME OF THE ANNE FRANK MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF TREASURE VALLEY INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · The California Endowment · Claude R & Ethel B Whittenberger Foundation · Simplot Company Foundation Inc · Idaho Power Foundation Inc · St Luke's Health System Ltd · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Percival Stern Foundation · United Way of Treasure Valley Inc · Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center Inc · Idaho Womens Charitable Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Whitney Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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